Gordon Lightfoot Solo

Published Mar 20, 2020

Twenty-one albums of original material is a hell of an achievement in any artist's career, let alone one as successful across multiple decad...

​Gordon Lightfoot Says 'Solo,' Born from 20-Year-Old Tapes, Is His 'Nebraska'

Published Mar 18, 2020

"A little strange that a guy would be that ambitious."   That's what the people of Orillia, ON thought when Gordon Lightfoot set out to Ch...

Green Day Father of All...

Published Feb 06, 2020

What the hell are Green Day doing?   The ugly-ass cover; the unnecessary profanity in the title; the ridiculously short runtime (26 minute...

Pinegrove Marigold

Published Jan 20, 2020

The latest full-length from Montclair, NJ indie band Pinegrove comes with a giant asterisk. At the end of 2017, frontman and primary songwri...

Pinegrove Gently Return from Hiatus with 'Marigold' After a Year of Serious Reflection

Published Jan 15, 2020

"Let me pull over and be smart and be safe here," Evan Stephens Hall tells Exclaim!, as he guides his car to the side of the road. Hall is o...

Class of 2020: I M U R's Dark R&B Is Genre-Bending Makeout Music

Published Jan 13, 2020

Experiment. Explore. Refine. It's a simple process, but one that's produced tangible results for the members of Vancouver electro-R&B trio I...

Ducks Unlimited Get Bleak

Published Dec 04, 2019

Jangle pop — that loose, chiming style of indie rock — is one of those genres that's easy to make, but deceptively hard to do well. Ducks Un...

Ralph Flashbacks & Fantasies

Published Dec 04, 2019

If you caught Raffaela Weyman on one of her recent opening gigs for Carly Rae Jepsen, you know that the Toronto pop singer, who performs as...

Beabadoobee Space Cadet

Published Nov 04, 2019

Bea Kristi loves the '90s. She's said as much in interviews, and embodies the decade's gives-no-fucks slacker aesthetic in a way that's less...

Saves the Day Through Being Cool: TBC20

Published Oct 30, 2019

By the time Saves the Day were recording their sophomore album, they were almost a completely different band, literally. Foreshadowing what...

King Princess Cheap Queen

Published Oct 30, 2019

Mikaela Straus exudes confidence. You can see it in her interviews (like our recent cover story), music videos and now, on her debut album a...

King Princess Finds Her Zhuzh on Debut 'Cheap Queen'

Published Oct 29, 2019

It takes 30 minutes, and several call apps to properly connect with Mikaela Straus. Sound is an issue, and she bristles at the choppy audio...

Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends

Published Oct 11, 2019

Taking Back Sunday arrived at a particularly fortuitous moment. The early oughts were a heady time for bands spilling their guts over hooky...

Massive Attack Meridian Hall, Toronto ON, September 18

Published Sep 19, 2019

Massive Attack have never seemed particularly interested in nostalgia. Their music tends to speak to a particular moment or, in the case of...

Charli XCX Charli

Published Sep 13, 2019

It's taken Charli XCX five years to follow up her last proper studio album, 2014's Sucker. But the Charli that made that album is not the Ch...

Charli XCX Is at the Centre of Her Own Pop Universe on New Album 'Charli'

Published Sep 09, 2019

"Does your back hurt from carrying all of pop music?"   It was a throwaway question offered during an impromptu AMA session that Charli XC...

G Flip About Us

Published Sep 03, 2019

Georgia Flipo's heart was broken, so she wrote some songs about it. That's the short version of About Us, the Australian musician's debut...

Sum 41 Order in Decline

Published Jul 22, 2019

Few would have predicted that Sum 41 would survive the early aughts pop punk boom. As perhaps the most cartoony and immature iteration, ther...

Sum 41 Survive Teen Stardom, Substance Abuse and Changing Tastes to Rise Again on 'Out for Blood'

Published Jul 12, 2019

The early oughts were awash in bouncy pop punk bands. Yet Sum 41, a young and bratty quartet from the Toronto suburb of Ajax, ON, somehow ma...

Blood Orange Angel's Pulse

Published Jul 11, 2019

Creative restlessness has been a hallmark of Dev Hynes' career since day one. From his days in Test Icicles through his time as Lightspeed C...